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From: "John Ashbury" <>
Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 9-12-07
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:22:46 -0400


On September 12, 1824, the first Apple Dumpling Day was held at The
Visitation Academy. It celebrates the day the Visitation Sisters arrived to
take over the school from The Sisters of Charity.


On September 12, 1877, Father John McElroy, who was the rector at St. John
The Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Frederick for 23 years beginning in
1822, died at the Jesuit Novitiate on East Second Street, at age 96. It was
during his pastorate that the present church edifice was built and
consecrated. More than 1,200 attended his funeral and burial at St. John's
Cemetery.


On September 12, 1893, Grace Chapel, the predecessor of Grace Episcopal
Church in Brunswick, was consecrated. It was razed in 1922.


On September 12, 1916, Charles Ernest Keller, who would become known as King
Kong Keller while playing for the New York Yankees, was born in Middletown.


On September 12, 1920, James Madison Smith, president of The Woodsboro Bank
and former owner of Smith's Hotel in Woodsboro, died in Baltimore. He was
born January 4, 1844.


On September 12, 1964, The Provincial House, home of The Southeast Province
of The Daughters of Charity, which contains more than 500 rooms, was
dedicated in Emmitsburg.


On September 12, 1967, Loyola Federal Savings and Loan Company bought The
Francis Scott Key Hotel for $260,000 at a public auction.




If anyone can add information to these History Moments,

or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day,

please contact me privately.



John W. Ashbury
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